noun pl. seeds or seed
- the part of a flowering plant that typically contains the embryo with its protective coat and stored food and that can develop into a new plant under the proper conditions; fertilized and mature ovule
- loosely
- any part, as a bulb, tuber, etc., from which a new plant can grow: a potato seed
- a small, usually hard, seedlike fruit
- seeds collectively
- the source, origin, or beginning of anything: the seeds of revolt
- Archaic
- descendants; posterity
- ancestry
- in the development of certain lower animals, a form suitable for transplanting, as spat
- the seed-bearing stage or condition: in seed
- spore ()
- sperm or semen
- something tiny, like a seed; esp.,
- ☆ a tiny crystal or other particle, as one added to a solution or liquid to start crystallization
- a tiny bubble, as a flaw in glassware
- ☆ Sports a seeded player
Origin:
ME sede < OE sæd, akin to Ger saat < IE base *sē(i)-, to cast, let fall > L serere, to sow, plant, sator, sower, semen, seed